Poetry as Escher: shifting perspective, a landscape that doesn't stand still, and questions that fold in on themselves.

Your souls, if you have them,
depart without having spoken.
They issue reels and loops
of thread, filaments lengthened
by longing, coming apart
in the sky like the tails of a shower.

Raymond McDaniel is the author of Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire, and Murder (a violet), a National Poetry Series selection.